“As it is said:
Go hundreds of miles away
From places of dispute;
Don't stay for an instant
Where disturbing emotions prevail.”
The Heart of Compassion (2006)
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Dilgo Khyentse 17
Bhutanese Buddhist Lama 1910–1991Related quotes
“Why that’s a hundred miles away. That’s a long way to go just to eat.”
On declining invitation to White House dinner honoring Nobel laureates, as quoted in Life magazine (20 January 1962)
Last words, said on the scaffold before his execution. ( 30 January, 1649 http://anglicanhistory.org/charles/charles1.html).
“Reading gives us some place to go when we have to stay where we are.”
Variant: Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.
" When I Set Out For Lyonnesse http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Thomas_Hardy/2736" (1870), lines 1-4, from Satires of Circumstance (1914)
Author unknown, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 320.
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Roll Another Number (For The Road)
Song lyrics, Tonight's the Night (1975)
Variant: My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.